te Building.
Mrs. Edmund Bowden, of Seattle, one of the hostesses at the Washington State Building,
California sends to Portland as repre- sentatives of her far-famed hospitality Mrs. Frank Wiggins, of Los Angeles; Mrs. T. A. Filcher, and no less a per- sonage than the wife of the governor, Mrs. Pardee. Xo gnycr party at the Exposition is to be found than the little group which lives in one wing of the big California Building. r>esides the two official hos- tesses and Mrs. Pardee, there are the four daughters of the governor, Miss Irma Filclicr and ]\Iiss Mae Wiggins. And the governor liinisdf is to be "back and forth" between the Exposition and his office all summer.
At the Wasliington state building there is a continual round of social gayety. The most charming women from the twenty largest cities of the state successively come to Portland to remain a week and to fill that week from beginning to end with good cheer. Bellingliam introduced Washing- ton by sending ten of her best-known hos- tesses, with ]\Irs. Olive Leonard at Ihcir head. And with them came, as honor guest to add distinction to the opening reception, IMrs. Albert Mead, wife of Wa.shington's governor. Seattle will send for her "week" :\Irs. E. Bowden. Cen- tralia sends ]\Irs. H. L. ]\Iean, and North
Yakima sends ]\Irs. Frank Harsley. These ladies all choose their own assistants in greater or fewer numbers.
The State of Oregon has chosen the wife of Commissioner Myers to be hostess at the State Building during the entire term of the Fair. Mrs. Myers is always ready to greet visitors to the State Build- ing and to make them feel that Oregon hospitality is warm and friendly. She ])rcsides over the spacious rooms on the upper floor of the building, to which tired women sightseers are sure to find their way. On special days ladies from other cities of the state assume position as hos- tess for the day, and arrange their own procedure of entertainment.
New Y'ork, while having no official hos- tess, as she had at St. Louis, is repre- sented in Portland by Miss Marjorie Luce, the daughter of Commissioner Luce, Mrs. De Lancy Ellis, wife of the executive com- missioner, and Mrs. Pratt Brown, wife of Commissioner Brown.
Idaho, too, has made generous provision for making Exposition visitors feel "at home." Mrs. Ad el i a Scott, the state hos- tess, is assisted from time to time by well-known ladies from different cities of the state. ]\Irs. Gooding, wife of the gov- ernor, spent a few days with the party, and Miss IMay Wood was also of the number.
Illinois is represented at the Exposition by ]\Irs. Jessie Palmer Webber, whose father was a former governor of that state and once a presidential nominee.
The old Bay State, which has one of the most attractive buildings at the Ex- position, has a gracious Imstess in ]\[rs. Wilson TI. l-'airbank, wife of the genial commissioner from ]\lassacluisett^, whose friends in the Exposition city are already many, though she has been here for so short a time.
From ]\lissouri came ]Miss Hattie Gor- don, under the title of honorary commis- sioner. ITer popularity at home is at- tested by the remark of Governor Folk when he announced her olHcial appoint- ment — "jMissouri's best is none too good for Sister Oregon's show."
The spirit of Governor Folk's neat lit- (le speech must somehow have crept into all the official appointments for hostesses, for surely "the best" have been sent to Portland to emphasize the hospitality of the Northwest and of visiting states.
THE EXHIBITS
By Henry E. Dosch, Director of ExKibits
THE demand for exhibit space at the Lewis and Clark Expo- sition exhausted every availa- ble square foot of space in the buildings devoted to liberal arts and foreign exhibits, and several hun- dred prospective exhibitors could not be accommodated. It was thought for a time that room might be made for all; but when it was learned that 2,000,000 square feet of space asked for could not be sup- plied without the erection of additional buildings, 249 applicants were turned away.
As the result of this survival of the fit- test policy, the exhibits at the Western World's Fair, while not so numerous as those at the St. Louis and Chicago ex- positions, are to the general public more interesting, and there are enough of them to satisfy the average visitor who does not expect to spend the summer at the Fair. The large Oriental and European ex- hibits buildings at the Western Centennial have been found entirely inadequate, as
regards space, in complying with the de- mands of the various commissioners, and more than one country was forced to be satisfied with an amount of space far be- low its desires. Among the countries rep- resented are: Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland. Turkey, Persia, Algeria, Egypt, Japan, China, India, and Ceylon.
Probably the largest, most valuable and interesting exhibit is that of Italy, which occupies more than one-half of the Euro- pean Exhibits Building. The participa- tion of this country has been under the careful supervision of Sig. Zeggio, Italian commissioner, and is thoroughly repre- sentative of Italy. The exhibit is valued at a figure which closely approa
